[lug] Secondary DNS with bind and rsync

[Hugh Brown]

I'd add a "notify yes;" to your options on the master as well.

Something to keep in mind while you are setting this up is that the
slave often won't pull the updates right away.  You can force an update
by doing "rndc refresh <full zone name>" on the slave server.

Also, it's worth turning up the debug and watching /var/log/messages (or
wherever you've set it to log) as you're working through this.

Hugh

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 15:09 -0600, Jason Vallery wrote:
> I think I've got it figured out, thanks for all the input. 
> 
> I found this page useful for reference: 
> http://www.linux.com/guides/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/chap21sec166.shtml
> 
> On 7/24/06, Chuck Morrison <cmorrison at greeleynet.com> wrote:
>         Look at the man pages for bind (or is it named, I'm on an
>         ubuntu desktop
>         right now and it doesn't have those man pages installed). It's
>         spelled
>         out how to set up a primary and secondary DNS setup. I don't
>         recall the 
>         terminology, but I did set this up at my last job and it did
>         work fairly
>         well. It takes care of the syncing itself.
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 14:29 -0600, Jason Vallery wrote:
>         > Hi all,
>         > 
>         > Is anyone aware of a howto that documents setting up a
>         secondary DNS
>         > server that mirrors the primary?  My initial thought would
>         be to use
>         > rsync to mirror the zone files, however I thought perhaps
>         there was a 
>         > better solution out there.  This would be for about 10
>         separate domain
>         > names, so not just one zone file.
>         >
>         > Thanks
>         > -Jason
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
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